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Spring Final Exam Review

Spring Final Exam Review. 2013: “Romeo and Juliet” STAAR Tests. “Romeo and Juliet”. What year did “Romeo and Juliet” debut? Know that a tragedy: treats in a serious and dignified way the terrible events that a character causes or encounters.

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Spring Final Exam Review

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  1. Spring Final Exam Review 2013: “Romeo and Juliet” STAAR Tests

  2. “Romeo and Juliet” • What year did “Romeo and Juliet” debut? • Know that a tragedy:treats in a serious and dignified way the terrible events that a character causes or encounters. • What does the Chorus say about “Romeo and Juliet” in the prologue? • Know basic character descriptions (reread them) • Literary Devices: • Foreshadowing • Oxymoron • Personification • Irony • Metaphor • Allusion • Understatement

  3. “Romeo and Juliet” Con’t • Why does Romeo go to the Capulet ball? • What does Lord Capulet originally tell Paris about Juliet getting married? • Know the different events leading up to Tybalt’s death. • How does Juliet feel about Tybalt’s death and Romeo’s banishment? • Friar Lawrence comes up with two different solutions, 1 before and 1 after the announcement of the Juliet/Paris wedding. What are they? • How does Lord Capulet react when Juliet refuses to marry Paris? • What excuse does Juliet use multiple times in order to see Friar Lawrence? • What does Juliet fear about drinking the potion the Friar gives her? • What is Balthazar’s role in Romeo and Juliet’s fate? • Why was Paris at the catacombs when Romeo arrives? • Know the basic events of the plays ending: from their deaths to the last line.

  4. “Romeo and Juliet” Con’tKnow the speaker, meaning, and context of each quote: • A. “Why then, O brawling love, O loving hate…Misshapen chaos…Feather of lead…bright smoke…cold fire…” • B. “Earth has swallowed all my hopes but she; She is the hopeful lady of my earth.” • C. “Compare her face with some that I shall show, And I will make thee think thy swan a crow.” • D. “I’ll look to like, if looking liking move;/ But no more deep will I endart my eye/ Than your consent gives strength to make it fly.” • E. “We’ll have no Cupid hoodwinked with a scarf/ …let them measure us by what they will,’ We’ll measure them a measure and be gone.” • F. “I fear, too early; for my mind misgives/ Some consequence yet hanging in the stars.” • G. “Content thee, gentle coz, let him alone./ ‘A bears him like a portly gentleman…” • H. “Go ask his name.-if he be married,/ My grave is like to be my wedding bed.” • I. “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose/ By any other word would smell as sweet.” • J. “More than Prince of Cats./ The very butcher of a silk button, a duelist, a duelist!” • K. “These violent delights have violent ends/ And in their triumph and die, like fire and powder,” • L. “Happiness courts thee in her best array;/ But, like a misbehaved and sullen wench,/ Thou pouts upon thy fortune and thy love.”

  5. STAAR Questions: • Know the difference between: • Literary Essay • Expository Essay • Short Answer • Revising and Editing questions • Know the five elements of plot • Know the A.C.E. strategy • Know how to properly embed a quote • Using quotation marks • Comma placement • Proper word choice: “say” vs. “quote.” • Be able to recognize a good thesis statement. • Should be specific enough that the reader knows what your essay will be about in relation to the prompt. • Know which sections of the test you can use a dictionary

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